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Study on Alkaline Flooding System with Antiscaling Effect

Received: 27 March 2017    Accepted: 8 April 2017    Published: 24 May 2017
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Abstract

For scaling problem in the alkaline flooding, the alkali with anti scaling effect was researched. The results show that scale inhibition effect of PAPEMP alkaline system (containing polyamino polyether methylene phosphonae, NaOH, NaBO2) is better than PASP alkaline system (containing sodium of polyaspartic acid, NaOH, NaBO2), When the concentration of the PAPEMP alkaline system is larger than 4%, it could tolerate the solution with calcium ion concentration of 500mg/L without scaling; both NaBO2 and PAPEMP alkaline system have good displacement efficiency. During the displacement process, a large differential pressure response appears when alkali concentration is high, and the incremental oil recovery increases with the increase of alkaline concentration. Microscopic mechanisms show that the alkaline solution penetrates into the crude oil and water drops are formed inside the oil phase, subsequently, to turn into the W/O emulsion, which could block the water channel and inhibit the viscous fingering, leading to the improvement of sweep efficiency.

Published in International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Engineering (Volume 5, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.ogce.20170503.12
Page(s) 34-38
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Keywords

Alkaline Flooding, Anti Scaling Effect, Enhance Oil Recovery, Microscopic Mechanism

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  • Research Institute of Western South China Sea Petroleum Administrative Bureau, CNOOC Zhanjiang Branch, Zhanjiang, China

  • Research Institute of Western South China Sea Petroleum Administrative Bureau, CNOOC Zhanjiang Branch, Zhanjiang, China

  • Research Institute of Western South China Sea Petroleum Administrative Bureau, CNOOC Zhanjiang Branch, Zhanjiang, China

  • Research Institute of Western South China Sea Petroleum Administrative Bureau, CNOOC Zhanjiang Branch, Zhanjiang, China

  • Research Institute of Western South China Sea Petroleum Administrative Bureau, CNOOC Zhanjiang Branch, Zhanjiang, China

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